Dennis Kucinich: No to War, Hot or Cold, With Russia

[Karmadillo]

http://russia-insider.com/en/military_politics_ukraine_opinion/2014/12/03/03-55-06pm/no_war_hot_or_cold_russia

No to War, Hot or Cold, With Russia
Posted on Dec 1, 2014
By Dennis Kucinich

Editor’s note: The following was adapted from an email by former Rep. Dennis Kucinich to his subscribers.

U.S.-Russia relations have deteriorated severely in the past decade and they are about to get worse, if the House passes H. Res. 758.

NATO encirclement, the U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine, an attempt to use an agreement with the European Union to bring NATO into Ukraine at the Russian border, a U.S. nuclear first-strike policy, are all policies which attempt to substitute force for diplomacy.

Russia’s response to the terror unleashed by western-backed neo-nazis in Crimea and Odessa came after the local population appealed to Russia to protect them from the violence. Russia then agreed to Crimea joining the Russian Federation, a reaffirmation of an historic relationship.

The Western press begins its narrative on the Crimea situation with the annexation, but completely ignores the provocations by the West and other causal factors which resulted in the annexation. This distortion of reality is artificially creating an hysteria about Russian aggressiveness, another distortion which could pose an exceptionally dangerous situation for the world, if acted upon by other nations. The U.S. Congress is responding to the distortions, not to the reality.

Similar distortions are developing now in the coverage of events in the eastern part of Ukraine, in Donetsk and Luhansk.

Tensions between Russia and the U.S. are being fueled every day by players who would benefit financially from a resumption of the Cold War which, from 1948 to 1991 cost U.S. taxpayers $20 TRILLION dollars (in 2014 dollars), an amount exceeding our $18 trillion National Debt.

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1. I thought he worked for Fox not the Kremlin?

Not like they are that different in thinking about it....Fox leasing him out?

[bemildred]

2. Dennis is welcome with the rest of us under the bus. nt

[KG]

3. what's the use of so many sabres, if they can't be rattled?

[Karmadillo]

4. Kick

[geek tragedy]

5. Putin-pimping trash.

NATO encirclement, the U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine, an attempt to use an agreement with the European Union to bring NATO into Ukraine at the Russian border, a U.S. nuclear first-strike policy, are all policies which attempt to substitute force for diplomacy.

There was no 'US-backed coup' in Ukraine, and an economic agreement with the European Union is NOT force, it is textbook diplomacy. NATO 'encirclement' is also quite a joke, if one looks at an actual map of Russia.

The only external party using force in Ukraine is Russia.

It is not our fault Russia's ultra-nationalist thug regime relies on old school anti-Americanism to bolster itself internally. And invades its neighbors.

We are not responsible for that.

Nor are we going to high-five Russia for its rightwing militarism.

This is the same Kucinich who was BFF's with Putin's clients Gaddhafi and Assad.
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/05/rep_dennis_kucinich_wont_assig.html

During a Wednesday interview with The Plain Dealer, Kucinich said protesters in Syria are making legitimate demands for reform, but some there are trying to "capitalize on those legitimate demands for reform and use it push a violent agenda."

"We also understand that there's very serious questions raised about the conduct of the Syrian police, but we also know the Syrian police were fired upon and that many police were murdered," Kucinich continued.

"Once a cycle of violence begins, it's inevitable that there's going to be innocent people drawn into it. And this is happening against a background of geopolitics and other nations' quests for dominance in the region which will enter into how they respond to what happens."

Kucinich said ongoing violence postpones any reforms the Syrian government might introduce.

"I've read where President Assad has made certain commitments, and I would imagine that when things finally settle down, that President Assad will move in a direction of democratic reforms," Kucinich said. "He has already made that commitment from what I can see."

Kucinich has been a reliable yes-man for the fascist regime in Moscow, which shows what a fraud he has been all these years. EU signs a trade agreement, which justifies a Russian invasion. Okay . .